Via Raw Story comes this pretty amazing colloquy from a couple
of days back on Fox News Channel’s Outnumbered. That’s
the daytime show in which four lovely ladies and “one lucky
guy” chew over the news of the moment like a pitbull on a raw
steak.
The topic is the Senate torture report and
the guy is Jesse Watters, the Fox News contributor best known for
his reports on The O’Reilly Factor. Watters pronounces
that he doesn’t even want to know what’s in the report because
“people do nasty things in the dark.” And besides, what is it that
Bill Clinton used to say? Oh yeah: There’s nothing new here:
“They Senate Democrats, they’re just trying to get one last shot
in at Bush before they go into the minority!” the correspondent
opined. “And they didn’t even interview any of the CIA
interrogators to do the report.”“It’s kind of like how Rolling Stone does
their reporting, they only get one side,” he added, referring to a
controversial report about an alleged gang rape at the University
of Virginia. “You know, the Democrats didn’t care about
transparency when they were destroying hard drives at the IRS.”
Watters’ whinging is outdone by Outnumbered and Five co-host
Andrea Tantaros, who pulls out all the patriotic stops short of
singing the national anthem:
“The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome,” she
said. “But we’ve had this discussion. We’ve closed the book on it,
and we’ve stopped doing it. And the reason they want to have this
discussion is not to show how awesome we are. This administration
wants to have this discussion to show us how we’re not
awesome.”
The lone voice of reason and skepticism toward unchecked
government power? That would be The Independent‘s Kennedy,
who pushes back on the pro-torture, pro-opaque members of the
panel. She’s the real patriot in my book.
The whole segment is worth watching but the fireworks begin
around 2.14.
Related:
“After torture report, our moral authority as a nation is
gone.”
And hell, it’s awards season, so take a minute to enjoy “Which
President Bombed Iraq Best?”:
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